Rawhide Kid #5

The Rawhide Kid finds himself outnumbered and cornered in this November 1955 Atlas-era western, with Joe Maneely's cover depicting the blond, fringed-jacket hero leaping through a shattered window, guns blazing, as a crowd of armed outlaws closes in around him. A menacing villain in the foreground snarls the warning, "If the Rawhide Kid gits away, ya'll ALL answer to me!" — perfectly capturing the desperate, high-stakes energy promised by the cover's own tagline, "Rawhide Kid's Most Desperate Hour!" Inside, Don Rico writes and Bob Brown illustrates "The Outcasts," rounding out a ten-cent package of all-new western action that earns its Comics Code seal the hard way.